Zhukov's Greatest Defeat by David M Glantz

Zhukov's Greatest Defeat by David M Glantz

One of the least-known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was an epic military disaster. Designed to dislodge the German Army from its position west of Moscow, Mars cost the Soviets an estimated 335,000 dead, missing, and wounded men and over 1,600 tanks. But in Russian history books, it was a battle that never happened-a historical debacle sacrificed to Stalin's postwar censorship.

"The Soviet dead, missing and wounded were estimated at a staggering 335,000Glantz describes the appalling carnage that occurred in the forests, mud, fog, freezing temperatures and raging snowstorms of western Russia [and] brings Operation Mars vividly to life." - New York Times Book Review "This gripping study of the Soviet counter-offensive - a work of permanent value - reveals the full extent of Zhukov's failure." - New York Review of Books "Glantz's evidence is impressive, his conclusions totally convincing, and the actual military detail unrivaled in the literature. A truly important work." - Malcolm Macintosh, author of Juggernaut: A History of Soviet Armed Forces "Shows how greatly Soviet leaders distorted the war's history in their attempts to present themselves as incapable of error." - International History Review "Vivid, powerful, compelling." - World War II"

David M. Glantz is the author of The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944, Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War, Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, and When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, all published by Kansas.

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ISBN 13	9780700614172
ISBN 10	0700614176
Title	Zhukov's Greatest Defeat
Author	David M Glantz
Series	Modern War Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of Kansas
Year published	1999-04-30
Number of pages	432
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